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P. N. NELMES & T. ORAWSHAW.

HAMMOCK.

Patented Nov. 3, 1885.

Attorneyy NITE TATES PHILIP N. NELMES AND THOMAS GRAWSHAW, OF TAUN TON, MASS.

HAMMOCK.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 329,763, dated November 3, 1885.

Application filed April 9, 1885. Serial No. 161,766.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, PHILIP N. NELMEs and THOMAS GRAWSHAW, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, residing at Taunton, in the county of Bristol and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hammocks; and we do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Our invention relates to screens for hammocks, designed to protect the occupant of the hammock from flies, mosquitoes, and other insects; and it consists in the novel construction and combination ofparts as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view repre senting the improved screen closed over asuspended hammock. Fig. 2 is an elevation showing the screen open to admit of access to the hammock. Fig. 8 is a sectional end View, and Fig. 4 is a sectional detail of the inter mediate hoops for distendiug the screen.

Referring by letter to the accompanying drawings, A A designate the posts, provided with hooks A A from which the hammock is suspended.

a a are the two end hoops which are suspended froin the horizontal Wire or rope F by the eyebolts E E and are held in position by collars O, which are secured to the rope F by small set-screws.

D and D represent four three-sixteenthsinch wires attached to the end hoops, a, for the purpose of guiding the middle hoops, B B in opening and closing the screen.

E and E are eyebolts by which the hoops B and B are suspended from the wire or rope F.

H indicates handles on the inside and outside of the middle hoops, B and B, by which to open and close the screen.

R are rubber rings inserted in the end covering of the screen to permit the ends of the hammock to pass through and at the same (No model.)

time to grip firmly around them when in place to exclude flies, mosquitoes, and the like.

S designates a water-proof covering, which can be readily unstrapped and spread over the screen and hammock to protect them from the weather when not in use.

The netting is secured to the hoops by ear pet-tacks or in any other suitable manner.

live are aware that it is not new to provide a cradle having its body formed of wire and having a wire top, so as to completely surround the occupant, and that cradles have been provided with a screen or wire top which is pivoted at its opposite ends to the head and foot portions of a cradle-frame, so as to turn up over the cradle or beneath the same, and,

therefore do not claim such devices broadly, but,

Having thus fully described our invention, what we claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a hammock, of a sectional mosquito-bar entirely surrounding the same, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, with a hammock, of a mosquito-bar entirely surrounding the same and composed of two sliding sections, sub stantially as specified.

3. The combination, with the rope F, having collars O secured thereto, of the screencovered hoops a a B B eyebolts E E E E, the rubber rings R R, and the hammock, sub stantially as specified.

4. The combination, with the rope F, having collars G secured thereto, of the sereensections provided with the wires D D, the hoops a a B B, the eyebolts E E E E, handles H, and rings B It, substantially as specified.

5. The combination, with a hammock, ofa sectional sliding enveloping screen, as set forth.

In testimony whereof we affiX our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

PHILIP N. NELMES. THOMAS ORAWSHAWV. \Vitnesses:

E. D. GODFREY, L. O. OoUoH. 

